Category Archives: Extreme weather
ICJ ruling draws a line in the sand on climate action
Pod of The Last Word on the Environment, with Matt Cooper on Today FM, as broadcast on Thursday July 24th is below. We discussed the landmark International Court of Justice ruling on climate, plus a new study on the ‘boiling … Continue reading
Posted in Extreme weather, Global Warming, Media, TodayFM
Tagged food security, ICJ, IPCC, Today FM
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Worst possible time to be led by the worst possible people
I haven’t written for the Business Post in a couple of years, so returned in late June with the below piece, which they headlined: ‘We must stop celebrating climate destroyers as captains of industry’. Among the topics covered was Trump’s … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Extreme weather, Global Warming, Politics
Tagged Allianz, aviation, Donald Trump, heatwave, insurance, NOAA, Texas
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Rain in Spain a harbinger of ever more climate pain
The horrifying floods that killed over 200 people in the Valencia region of Spain dominated the headlines in October 2024, but as I explained in a piece at the time for TheJournal.ie, these were far from isolated incidents. They are … Continue reading
Posted in Extreme weather, Global Warming, Just Stop Oil
Tagged flooding, Friederike Otto, Spain, TheJournal.ie, Valencia, World Weather Attribution
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Another year for the record books?
I filed this piece, a combined review of 2023 and preview of 2024 on the climate and wider environmental front for the Irish Examiner just before the holidays and it ran in early January. And if I sound like a … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Extreme weather, Global Warming, Politics, Sustainability
Tagged COP28, flooding, Libya, Midleton, Storm Babet, World Weather Attribution
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Mitigation, adaptation – or suffering
Years and decades of dithering, denial and inaction mean that the remaining options open to humanity grow more limited and more unpalatable by the day. I explained in this Irish Examiner piece in late October the crucial differences between climate … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Extreme weather, Global Warming
Tagged adaptation, mitigation, West Antarctic, World Weather Attribution
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Climate impacts hitting home
The below piece ran as full pages in the Irish Mirror and Irish Daily Star in late October, to mark the UN’s International Day Against Climate Change. IT IS ALMOST certain that 2023 will be the hottest year globally since … Continue reading
Posted in Extreme weather, Global Warming, Irish Focus, Sustainability
Tagged flooding, Irish Mirror, Storm Babet
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Nature holds key to tackling flood risks
Flooding remains Ireland’s top climate vulnerability, and it once again came home to bite in county Cork in October 2023 when the town of Midleton and some surrounding areas were inundated, with millions of euros in damages, but thankfully, no … Continue reading
Posted in Extreme weather, Global Warming, Irish Focus, Sustainability
Tagged Climate Action Plan, Eamon Ryan, flooding, Midleton, OPW, Pickering
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